Tag Archives: vaccination
Stroke Risk After COVID-19 Vaccination Among Older Adults
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 22nd March 2024Stroke Risk After COVID-19 Bivalent Vaccination Among US Older Adults is a study just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. It examined the risk of stroke in a time period immediately after administration of either brand of a COVID-19 bivalent vaccine compared with a later time period among adults aged 65 years…
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COVID Vaccination in Children
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th November 2021The New England Journal of Medicine just published a study Evaluation of the BNT162b2 Covid-19 Vaccine in Children 5 to 11 Years of Age that reports phase 1 and 2 data about the vaccine in children. During the phase 1 study, a total of 48 children 5 to 11 years of age received 10 μg,…
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How Long Does COVID Immunity Last?
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 28th May 2021Now that the COVID epidemic is receding in the United States, a critical question is how long will the immunity to the disease persist in patients who have recovered from the infection or in subjects who have been vaccinated against it? A study published in Nature suggests that immunity may last a lifetime. The study…
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The Lack of Effect of Influenza Vaccination on the Elderly
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 4th March 2020The Annals of Internal Medicine recently published online a study of the effectiveness of influenza vaccination on the likelihood of subjects 65 and older being hospitalized or dying. The study’s objective was: “To determine the effectiveness of the influenza vaccine in reducing hospitalizations and mortality among elderly persons by using an observational research design that…
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Measles, Mumps, Rubella Vaccination, and Autism
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 8th March 2019The title of this post is the same as that of a paper published in the Annals of Internal Medicine this month. I’ve added a comma before and in the interest of stylistic nicety. Twenty years ago a fraudulent paper was published in the Lancet which purported to link the MMR vaccine with autism. There…
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Vaccinating Boys for HPV
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 25th October 2011As almost everyone more sentient than a pillow must now know, a federal advisory panel recommended that all boys be vaccinated against human papilloma virus. Thus the government recommends that, over time, the entire US population be immunized against this threat. I’ll have a detailed presentation up about this and a related topic before long. But for now consider…
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